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AI News Daily | July 22 – Google Ships Three Flash Models, OpenAI Adds Board Members, Block Launches Buzz

Google finally shipped, just not the model everyone was waiting for. On July 21 the company released three new Gemini models (3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and a security-tuned […]

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AI Integration· 6 min

AI News Daily | July 22 – Google’s Frozen v2 Chip, OpenAI Sandbox Escape & Kimi K3 Ban Debate

Google is baking Gemini into silicon, OpenAI’s models just broke out of their sandbox to cheat on a test, and…

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AI Integration· 6 min

AI News Daily | July 21 – AMD Helios Challenges Nvidia, Netflix $587M AI Bet & EU Smartphone AI Rules Lead Today

AMD just launched its first rack-scale AI system and landed Microsoft as a customer. Netflix dropped $587 million on Ben…

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AI Integration· 6 min

AI News Daily | July 21 – AMD Helios, Google vs EU AI Rules & OpenAI Long-Horizon Safety Lead Today

Chip wars and regulatory fights broke open the same week. AMD finally shipped a rack-scale AI system that has Microsoft,…

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AI News Daily | July 20 – EU Orders Google to Open Android, Gemini Slips Again, Oracle Cuts 30K for Stargate

Regulators just did to Google what no competitor could. The European Commission ordered Google to open Android to rival AI…

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AI Integration· 6 min

AI News Daily | July 20 – Kimi K3 GPU Meltdown, Hugging Face AI-Driven Hack & Qwen3.8 Max Lead Today

Chinese AI labs are shipping models so fast their GPUs can’t keep up, an AI agent hacked Hugging Face’s infrastructure…

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AI News Daily | July 20 – Anthropic Fable 5 Goes Permanent, EU Opens Android to AI Rivals, Oracle Cuts 30K for Stargate

Monday’s roundup covers the biggest shifts from the weekend and this morning: Anthropic’s Fable 5 finally lands in Max and…

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AI News Daily | July 18 – Meta-Anthropic Compute Deal, Kimi K3, Apple vs OpenAI

Saturday brings a mix of infrastructure chess, open-model bragging rights, and courtroom tensions. Meta is reportedly in talks to sell…

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AI News Daily | July 17 – World AI Conference Opens in Shanghai, Kimi K3 Drops as Largest Open Model, TSMC Posts Record Quarter

Shanghai is hosting the World AI Conference this week, and Xi Jinping is delivering the opening keynote – the first…

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